All that money must be worth a fortune -  Neddie_Seagoon.

I'm sorry he's in a gunfight at the moment, can he ring you back? - Jordan Tate

Never attribute malice to what can be explained by incompetence - attributed to Robert Heinlein but may be a paraphrase, see Hanlon's_razor.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest - from The_Boxer by Paul Simon

Don't you get me wrong, I only wanna know - from Superstar by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The polls have some explaining to do - Harold Wilson, 18 June,_1970.

I just gave it my best lift, and up she went - Dean_Lukin

God help me if I'm wrong, but... Howard Donahue

I found myself in what is euphemistically called a target rich environment - unnamed infantryman describing a contact turned badly wrong

Brave isn't about not being scared. Brave is about what happens when you are scared. - Victoria Cross recipient to primary school audience, replying to a question 

At least it shows that when we shoot at something, we can hit it - Royal Australian Navy spokesperson commenting on an incident in which a submarine was struck by a dummy torpedo during an exercise (probably someone put too much fuel in the practice torpedo, damage to the fibreglass fairing but no danger except maybe to the nerves of those inside the submarine when they heard the bang)

Before we go any further, son... a damn fine shot... Admiral to very junior looking rating in an Australian cartoonist's version of the above

and almost anything Queen_Elizabeth_The_Queen_Mother is reported to have said.

See also some of my own